The 10-song Shuffle

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The fact that I find this thread mundane and overdone and I would rather go off and do other things after the song was done.

...and the fact that you chose to participate in it...

I was listening to all the 5-star rated tunes in my collection - a 705 song playlist. Here's the last 10 that played.

It's a long way to the top (if you wanna rock n' roll) - AC/DC
It's your thing - Isley Brothers
Disposable Teens - Marylin Manson
Water From a Vine Leaf (Xylem Flow Remix) - William Orbit
It Don't Hurt - Sheryl Crow
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
Sick of Life - Godsmack
Caribbean Blue - Enya
You Talk Too Much - George Thorogood & the Destoyers
Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest

That's a different take, I have only just got iTunes, I'm not sure about ratings yet... from your list, I do like The Steve Miller Band... and I haven't heard George Thoroughgood for ages...

FEEDER "Pushing The Senses" - (Feeder: The Singles)
TORI AMOS "Father Lucifer" - (A Piano: The Collection)
MOGWAI "Mogwai Fear Satan: u-Ziq remix" - (Kicking A Dead Pig)
U2 "Gloria" - (October)
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO "Audacity Of Huge" (101 Indie Classics)
XTC "Fly On The Wall" - (English Settlement)
ALSION MOYET "Invisible" - (Singles)
EEK A MOUSE "(Peeni Walli (Fireflies)" - (The Very Best Of Eek A Mouse)
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL "No Place Like Home" - (Essence And Rare)
THE SMITHS "Paint A Vulgar Picture" - (Strangeways, Here We Come)

I like this thread. I took a quick listen though your list, sqounk, and well, once again, we don't have a lot in common taste-wise, but we do have an artist in common as you'll see.

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Love and Tears - The Slip
Help Me - Joan Osborne
Halfway Round the World - Carly Simon
Avenue A - Block
Sooner - Jim James (live at the XPonential Music Festival 2006)
Hang on to the Night - XTC
Nightblindness - David Gray
Together - June Rich
The Night That Never End - The Cat Empire

I'm interested to know, how do you decide what stays and goes on your iPod? Myself, I keep this index card sitting on the table, and anytime a song comes on I've had enough of, I mark it for deletion. Then, every two weeks or so I take the card, go into iTunes and do my purging. Just from the list above, I marked two songs for elimination. The other 8, I am rather happy with.

Lemme see...

1. Planxty Noel Hill- The Pogues
2. Wild Cats of Kilkenny- The Pogues
3. Barfly- Ray LaMontagne
4. Mental- Eels
5. Opera Singer- Cake
6. K.C. Blues- Professor Longhair
7. Visions of Johanna- Bob Dylan
8. Union Square- Tom Waits
9. Lazy Old Sun- The Kinks
10. War On War- Wilco

There ya go

Thank you for appreciating the thread; it's a harmless bit of fun, I'm not demanding people have to like it LOL... so there is XTC on your list, I have never heard this song though, I'm not even sure it is covered on Fossil Fuels... I know of Joan Osborne and Dire Straits of course and I'd certainly be interested in hearing what the Cat Empire sound like!

Last edited by squonk on 01 Oct 2010, 6:24 am, edited 1 time in total.

A friend has just mailed me some Cake songs which I've yet to listen to... I certainly appreciate Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, the Kinks and The Pogues!

PAVEMENT > Range Life > Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
FUN^DA^MENTAL > Mother India > Seize The Time
BABES IN TOYLAND > Real Eyes > Fontanelle
U2 > 40 > Under A Blood Red Sky
TORI AMOS > Thank You > Forgotten Earthquakes
THE CLASH > Tommy Gun > Theme time Radio Hour
TORI AMOS > Jackie's Strength (Remixed Version) > A Piano: The Collection
TORI AMOS > Silent All These Years > Little Earthquakes
THOMPSON TWINS > Hold Me Now > 100 80's Hits
THE CURE > Never Enough > Greatest Hits

This has never happened [in a list] before, for iTunes to pick three songs by the same artist from almost 90Gb of music files is kind of quirky!

charlie daniels band- the devil went down to georgia
pearl jam- yellow ledbetter
alanis morisette- all i really want
kesha- take it off
carrie underwood- before he cheats
pearl jam- go
metallica- mama said
metallica- the thing that should not be
once again,metallica- the judas kiss
train- if its love

Do like Metallica and Alanis Morisette, Pearl Jam also...

JAN AND DEAN > Midsummer Nights Dream > Whole Lot Of Lovin'
HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT > s**t Arm, Bad Tattoo
THE SMITHS > Unloveable > Louder Than Bombs
STEREOLAB > Miss Modular >Oscillons From The Anti-Sun
BRIGHTER > Frostbite > Out To Sea
SAILOR > Glass Of Champagne > 100 Hits: 70's
KRAFTWERK > Tour De France > Tour De France
ARETHA FRANKLIN > Respect > Best Sixties Album In The World... Ever!
HEIDI BERRY > North Shore Train > Doing It For The Kids
STING > All This Time > Fields Of Gold: The Best Of Sting 1984-1994

Some Day My Prince Will Come -- Adrianna Caselotti
Frosty the Snowman -- Gene Autry
Call It My Life -- Sarah Hudson
Sleigh Ride/Marshmallow World -- Kristin Chenoweth
Just Dance -- Lady Gaga
O Come, O Come Emmanuel -- Enya
Steady As The Beating Drum -- Cast of Pocahontas
Special -- Cast of Avenue Q
One By One -- Cast of The Lion King (Broadway Version)
Heal the World -- Michael Jackson

I recently downloaded a Christmas compilation which had Gene Autry's "Frosty The Snowman" and a whole lot of other good stuff besides, Ella, Frank etc etc...

DON HENLEY > I Will Not Go Quietly > Actual Miles: Don Henley's Greatest Hits
DAVID BOWIE > Young Americans (Single Version) - Best Of Bowie
HOLE > I Think That I Would Die > Live Through This
MARILLION > Forgotten Sons > Script For A Jester's Tear
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL > Are You Trying To Be Funny? > Love Not Money
U2 > Another Day > Boy: Deluxe Edition
THE CLASH > Lose This Skin > Sandinista
MADNESS > The Return Of The Los Palmas 7 > Total Madness
THE BEAT > Tears Of A Clown > The Best Of The Beat
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS > Good Year For The Roses > I'm The Man

i gotta feeling- black eyed peas
immigrant song- led zeppelin
18 and life- skid row
love the way you lie- rihanna & eminem
head over feet- alanis morissette
get it up- chickenfoot
my kinda girl- chickenfoot
gone away- offspring
my own prison- creed
the time of my life- david cook

"Avalon" > SIGUR ROS > Agaetis Byrjun
"Moonchild" > M83 > Before The Dawn Heals Us
"Something Happened On The Way To Heaven" - PHIL COLLINS > Hits
"Date With The Night" - YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Fever To Tell
"Sound Of The Suburbs" - THE MEMBERS - 101 Punk and New Wave Anthems
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" - PROCUL HARUM" - The Best Sixties Album In The World... Ever!
"(I Got A) Catholic Block" - SONIC YOUTH - Sister
"Blood b***h" - COCTEAU TWINS - Garlands
"Cool For Cats" - SQUEEZE - The Big Squeeze
"Fix The Sky A Little" - 65 DAYS OF STATIC - The Fall Of Math

"Runaway" - Del Shannon
"Walkie Talkie Man" - Steriogram
"The Way" - Fastball
"Me and My Imaginary Friends" - Colin Hay
"Unwell" - Matchbox Twenty
"Ditty" - Paperboy
"James Dean (I Wanna Know)" - Daniel Bedingfield
"Captain Jack" - Captain Jack
"Daddy DJ" - Daddy DJ
"California Love" - 2Pac

I have only one of these artists in my library - Colin Hay, although not this song. Runaway is a good song too.

Harvest - Neil Young
High On You - Survivor
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) - Grateful Dead
I Love You - Lou Reed
We're Together Again - Beach Boys
Once and For All - Bitter, Bitter Weeks
St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) - John Parr
The Beginning - Seal
Pink Houses - John Cougar Mellencamp
Deathly - Aimee Mann